Kiyotaki Temple is located in the central area of Bantian County, close to Kashiwahara Castle. It is a quiet place surrounded by mountains on three sides.
Before the ceremony officially started, Master Saburo was visiting the Bodhi Temple of the Kyogoku family under the leadership of Kashiwahara Michizane, the abbot of Seitakiji Temple.
Kashiwara Michizane was also born in the Kyogoku clan. In fact, the monks who can serve as the abbot of the Samurai Bodhi Temple are generally from this Samurai family. In terms of seniority, Kashiwahara Michizane is equivalent to Kyogoku's cousin.
"Master Sanlang, what is benevolence?"
Walking in the middle of the courtyard of Kiyotaki Temple, Kashiwara Michizane suddenly stopped, then looked at a cherry tree not far away and asked with a smile.
Master Saburo also followed Kashiwahara Michizane's gaze and saw that the cherry blossom tree was indeed lush and leafy, and it was the cherry blossom season now. Such beautiful scenery under the colorful fallen flowers made Master Saburo not only feel comfortable.
"Benevolent people are human beings. Kissing is the most important thing!" Master Sanlang thought for a while and then replied.
Kashiwahara Michizane glanced at Master Saburo in surprise, "I have heard for a long time that Master Saburo has read the books collected by Shanghei Temple. Today, when I saw him, he certainly lived up to his reputation."
"But why did Master Sanlang answer what Confucius said in the Zhongyong Chapter of the Book of Rites?"
Master Sanlang shook his head, "I am not answering with these words, but I just spoke out of my feelings."
Seeing that Kashiwahara Michizane did not answer, Master Saburo had no choice but to continue, "Since entering Seitaki Temple, I have felt that we are all blood relatives. Why do we kill each other?"
"Master Saburo seems to be talking about the fight between Musashi Shouden and Nagato Shouden?" Kashiwahara Michizane said with a half-smile.
Master Saburo nodded, "Master should know that last year our family repelled the attack of the Asai family in Anegawa and relieved the siege of Uesaka Castle. I thought that my uncle would be grateful for my father's life-saving grace and shake hands with my father. And. I just didn’t expect that my uncle would run away again and go to Guanyin Temple City.”
"As for what it means, it must not be difficult to guess with the master's intelligence, right?"
After Master Saburo finished speaking, Kashiwahara Michizane clasped his hands and recited a Zen saying, and then continued, "It seems that what Master Saburo is worried about is the internal strife in our family?"
"That's right." Master Sanlang said with a serious face, "Looking at the past events of our family, it is not difficult to see that the root cause of our family's weakening strength to this day is precisely the several internal fights that occurred in our history."
"Let's not talk about it from afar, let's talk about the fight between my father and my grandfather during the Dayei years. Didn't Asai Ryomasa and others take the opportunity to gain power, so that my family lost control of Kitaomi?"
"I didn't expect that the Kyogoku family's leaders for several generations were not as clear-eyed as you, Master Saburo!" Kashiwahara Michizane found that he also began to like the young but extremely spiritual little guy in front of him.
"However, I have some bad news to say here, the poor monk." Kashiwahara Michizane pondered for a moment, and then continued, "Three days ago, the poor monk received a letter from Hida Morden (Kyogoku HD). It seems that he has already Entered Xiaogu City."
"What? Such a thing actually happened?" Master Sanlang was simply shocked.
Who is Kyogoku HD? The father of Kyogoku Takahiro and Kyogoku Takayoshi, the head of the Kyogoku family who has not officially retired (Kyogoku Takahiro stepped down as the family governor, and there is still controversy). Kyogoku HD has appeared in Otani Castle, so doesn’t it mean that Kyogoku HD has completely failed in order to make Kyogoku Takahiro step down?
What a shame! You cheated on your son! Master Saburo already wanted to rush to Otani Castle and cut open Kyogoku HD's brain to see if it was filled with paste.
mmp, you don’t care whether Kyogoku Takahiro or Kyogoku Takayoshi is in charge, they are all members of the Kyogoku family anyway. If you run to the Asai family now, you are voluntarily being used as a gunman by the Asai family!
It can be expected that after Asai Ryomasa controls Kyogoku HD, he can use the name of Kyogoku HD to call on the people of Kitaomi, and the unity of the Asai family will be strengthened again. At the same time, Asai Ryomasa also has great justice, and can use the name of "injustice" to attack Kyogoku Takahiro.
Although this is indeed a bit ridiculous, but who made Takahiro Kyogoku not the official governor of the Kyogoku family? What's even more ridiculous is that Kyogoku Takayoshi actually went to the Kannonji Castle of the Rokkaku family, probably for the same purpose as Kyogoku HD.
Kyogoku Takahiro wants to use the Asai family's help to make Kyogoku Takahiro step down, and Kyogoku Takayoshi holds the thigh, which is Rokkaku Sadayori. The visitor's calculations were all over the place, but these two sbs never thought that no matter which family, the Asai family or the Rokkaku family, finally occupied Kitaomi, nothing would happen to the Kyogoku family afterwards?
The territory has been eaten into the stomach, why should others vomit it out? Moreover, when Kyogoku Takahiro is defeated and Kitaomi is defeated by others, you Kyogoku Takahiro and Kyogoku Takayoshi will lose territory and troops, and others will not tolerate you at all.
It's a complete waste of money!
Therefore, Master Saburo believes that Kyogoku HD and Kyogoku Takayoshi are completely pig-minded.
Regarding Master Saburo's eating chicken, Kashiwahara Michizane had already expected it. "The poor monk was also very shocked when he first heard about it. However, the monk has long since stopped caring about it, and the poor monk does not want to interfere with worldly affairs."
"I got along very well with Master Saburo today, so I will give this thing to Master Saburo. You can bring this thing to the poor monk's house in the future. Maybe the poor monk can still help with some small things." After saying that, Kashiwahara Michizane took it out from his arms. A copper coin with a dime missing was placed in Master Sanlang's hand.
Master Saburo took the copper coin without knowing why, and then bowed to Kashiwahara Michizane, "I had a great chat with the master today, and I will come to have a long talk with the master someday."
"my pleasure!"
It was almost noon, and almost all the guests invited by Kyogoku Takahiro had arrived, and Kyogoku Takahiro was also welcoming a distinguished guest outside Seitakiji Temple.
"Go to the Chief Hall, finally we're waiting for you, please come in!"
At the entrance of Kiyotaki Temple, when a middle-aged man wearing a hunting coat and a black hat stepped out of the sedan, Kyogoku Takahiro immediately came forward and greeted him with a smile on his face.
The visitor also hurriedly returned the courtesy and said, "Musashi is so polite as the guardian of the temple. Thank you for being invited to be the black hat bride of Master Saburo's temple. Saburo is also flattered!"
The person coming was Masakuni Hatakeyama, one of the three leaders, the Hatakeyama family, who was later the head of the Hatakeyama family and the younger brother of the current head, Hatakeyama Ainaga.
Originally, Prime Minister Kyogoku Takahiro wanted to invite the head of the Hatakeyama family, Ue-Naga Hatakeyama. However, although the Hatakeyama family has declined, it still owns the territory of Kii and Kawachi. It also nominally serves as the guardian of Ezhong, which is much more powerful than Kyogoku Takahiro. It does not want Kyogoku Takahiro at all.
However, the Kyogoku family is, after all, one of the three most famous families in the family, so some face should be given to it, so Hatakeyama Uecho sent his younger brother, Hatakeyama Masakuni, to give Kyogoku Takahiro enough face. .
Of course, another more important reason is that Hatakeyama Ue Naga himself is in a state of distress and has no time to respond to any invitation from the Kyogoku family.
